caries

Borrowed from Latin cariēs.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛə.ɹiːz/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɛ.ɹiz/
• Rhymes: -ɛəɹiz
• Homophones: carries, karris (Mary–marry–merry merger, happy-tensing)
• Hyphenation: car‧ies

caries (usually uncountable, plural caries)

1. The progressive destruction of bone or tooth by decay.
   1. (usually) Ellipsis of dental caries (“tooth decay”).

      Near-synonym: cavity

caries

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of cary

• “caries”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Serica, ericas

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caries f

1. plural of carie

caries

1. second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of carier

• aciers
• casier
• craies
• créais
• écrias
• sciera

From careō (“to lack”) + -iēs.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈka.ri.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkaː.ri.es]

cariēs f (genitive cariēī); fifth declension

1. decay, rot, rottenness, corruption

Fifth-declension noun.

• cariōsus

• carius

• “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “caries”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “caries”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 93

Borrowed from Latin caries.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaɾjes/ [ˈka.ɾjes]
• Rhymes: -aɾjes
• Syllabification: ca‧ries

caries f (plural caries)

1. (dentistry) caries, cavity

• “caries”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025